A member of the GM Inside News forum posted today that he received an email from General Motors announcing the end of the Monte Carlo. We rang up the General for confirmation and received word that the Monte Carlo is indeed being offed. May 4th will reportedly be the last day you can order a Monte Carlo and production of the car at GM's Oshawa plant in Canada will cease on June 20th. Apparently production of the Monte Carlo is being cancelled to make room for all those extra Malibu orders the automaker is expecting when the new 2008 model sedan begins production in October. This is the sixth generation Monte Carlo, and when asked if we'd see the name return on a new model in the near future, we got the canned answer from GM, "We do not comment on future product." Sigh. Monte Carlo sales were off 64.2% in January of 2007 with only 1,639 units being sold. In 2006, 34,113 units were sold, a slight improvement over 2005.

NO surprise here....

 

couldn't have happened to a better car.

chopping two doors off a big car doesn't make it sporty. Especially when its ugly. This is a prime example of what GM doesn't want to be. They should make a big statue to this POS and make sure every has to walk by it as a reminder of what almost killed the company.

 

Why do I have a feeling that this Malibu that they're banking on is going to go over about as well as the Malibu Maxx that they were so excited about?

 

That car sucks...im glad to see it go. FWD ftl

 

HOORAY!!!!

What are NASCAR wannabe's gonna drive now?

 

IMO GM killed it back in 1987 when they converted the successful rear wheel drive Monte Carlo, Regal, Cutlass Supreme, and Grand Prix to very ugly FWD cars.

 

Toyota's

 

LOL

 

Ohhh no! Where am I gonna get my Dale Jr edition Monte Carlo SS?!??!

 

I had the misfortune of driving this P.O.S. on a company trip once. I felt bad making my company pay for such a lousy car!

 

The people that I know who have the 2000 and newer Monte Carlos are quite happy with them.

The pic in the first post looks too Cavalier like though.

GM is upset about Toyotas rolling into Nascar the last I heard.

 

Yeah, all joking aside the last gen Monte Carlo is actually a pretty decent sedan. Obviously it hasn't always been that way because everyone thinks it still sucks.

 

The land yacht has finally sunk!

 

It is/was so UGLY! No tears shed on this carbuncle.

 

Its a coupe, not a sedan...well was

 

Oh Well.

 

I have problems seeing it as a coupe, like my insurance company calling my car a 4 door coupe.... hahaha

 

I saw one parked in the rental lot today. I looked and said "buh-bye".

 

Whoohooo.. its dead its finally dead!!!
Now resurect it in a few years as a Rwd beast and everyone will be happy. I have a friend with a 85 cutlass and yeah that thing was a beast and a half (had a Cadi 550 motor squeezed inside) and she also drove Monte's, those were cars if well maintained.

Guess the Nascar fans are going to be buying Impala SS's now.

 

More progress. I'm not even sure that they'll replace it anytime soon. I see the G8 (rebadged) maybe bumping the Impala out of the line up. A nice looking, rwd V8 Impala + one less car (MC) on the production lines = a good move for GM. Hopefully it'll work out that way.